The Daily Do

Do You Choose An Inspired Life? - Day 389

Inspired living flows from choosing things that light you up, diving into energy and filling up your cup. Pursue the flame that flickers when you think of things to do, inspiration is far more quenching than simply chilling is for you. Enlivened by the life you’re choosing, curiosity then turns to passion, everything that you become begins with what you can imagine!

Do You Know Fear Can Guide You? - Day 388

Fear can be a signpost to what it is you want to do, the wall you have to break down, the barrier you must break through. We don’t fear so many things so take your fears as a sign, it’s the truth in you saying “I can do this, this is who I am.” Accept the part of you that really wants to face this fear, visualise that moment, bring the feeling close and near of when you break the chain and lean into what you must achieve, know that fear is guiding you, accept it and believe.

Do You Ask How You're BEING? - Day 387

How are you BEING? What is going on inside that steers the way you act, how you’re being is the outer evidence of your heart. How you're BEING is a powerful wake up call to turn the lens outwards, to connect with others in the way you act, your gestures, and your words. What is it you’re saying in the way you’re being today? There’s a billboard right above your head, what does your sign say?

Do You Want Freedom From Anxious Thoughts? - Day 386

Sitting in the absence of worry or pain is a skill that you can learn, a place in your mind you can enter each day of peace without suffering. Deep presence of mind, aware yet still, pervades then your actions and thought, and where before there was panic and resistance to pain now you will notice there’s not. With practice, thoughts quieten and fear fades with them, pockets of presence unfold, and there in the stillness you sit without pain, wide awake, unfrightened and alone.

Do You Look For Life's Meaning? - Day 385

To life’s big questions, answer small in what you do today. There is nothing like proactive fulfilment to answer existential quandary, one day’s best is the answered test of all that space/time wondering. If you’re pondering life's purpose, quarrelling with the infinite, look into your day and find the answers within it! Get out and use your body, complete one important thing for you, the answer to your purpose is in your daily do.  

Do You Get Trapped In Constant Crises? - Day 384

Take what’s really urgent and do that on the side, make time for what’s important to truly change your life. Caught in crises management, simply reacting to the day, means we’ll never get much further than just batting tasks away. Trapped in the urgency of miniature crises we neglect the bigger blocks of future fulfilment and success. But more important is the stuff that moves you forward with your life, the rocks you won’t see moving but that truly help you over time. 

Do You Want To Break Overthinking? - Day 383

You can’t think your way out of overthinking, that’s the lie it tries to tell, but I’ve found one way out is to firmly say, “I will…”. “I will...” is an action, the bridge from thought out into Do! Try this when thoughts suffocate, and notice how it releases you. "I will…" could take you places by the time the blossom comes next year, free from overthinking, and the pointless spiral of your fear. 

Do You Choose Fear or Courage? - Day 382

Greatness dwells in all of us, and we find it in the strangest places, tucked amongst our daily struggles, there it is, our greatness. Recently a young plumber, lying beneath the sink, said, “Every morning I get in the shower and I have a choice, courage or fear. I chose courage this morning and that’s why I am here.” I cleared up the coffee I’d spat out and actually felt my troubles lift, there lying face up in pipes he had given me this gift. Courage or fear? Everyday, that's the simple choice.

Do You Want To Be Happy Today? - Day 381

Does unbridled happiness frighten you, as if unprepared for disasters jolt? You can’t dance in the sunlight for fear of a lightning bolt? To spin circles in the sand with the warm sun upon your face does not attract the lightning, you are not teasing fate. Allow yourself your happiness and dance upon the sand, turn your face up to the sun and hold good fortunes hand, open your heart to all that will go well in this, your life, you’re standing in the sunlight, today there is no lightning strike. 

Do You Need To Tell Someone The Truth? - Day 380

The little white lies we tell all add up to blocks of shame, tiny deflections of who we are told again and again and again. Over time these lies stack up, the steady drip, drip, drip disguise, until one day they fall away and our truth stands before our eyes. And the further that you push that day away, the more it hurts. You can free yourself from shame by being honest today, just start. Shame despises honesty, truth sets your whole heart free.